Pondy medical college receives nat'l body accreditation

Puducherry: Mahatma Gandhi medical college and research institute, a constituent college of Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth, a deemed university, has received entry-level accreditation from the national accreditation board for hospitals and healthcare providers (NABH) recognizing its standard of patient care services and patient safety.

The college is the first institution in Puducherry and third in Tamil Nadu to receive NABH accreditation. The college imparted extensive training to all its staff members including doctors, nurses and allied healthcare workers in patient care services and safety that enabled the institute to bag the NABH accreditation, said a statement.

The hospital with 13 full-fledged super-specialty departments catering to healthcare needs of people in Puducherry and neighbouring districts of Tamil Nadu, has proposed plans to start super-specialty in surgical gastroenterology, palliative medicine, radiation oncology and transplant programs by the end of 2017.

National assessment and accreditation council (Naac) accorded A Grade to the deemed university, which was listed among top 100 universities in the country by National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). The university was the first among other health universities in the Union territory of Puducherry to receive such ranking.

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